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zen: vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment.
Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general....
ZEOW Zero Every Other Word
Zerochs Consultant: This individual is trained to tell you what you want to hear in the manner least likely to upset you.
Such persons clone themselves or "Xerox" their person to the person to whom...
Zero defects: The result of shutting down a production line.
-- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary...
Zero G and I fell fine.
ZERO Nothing. Zilch. Having no measurable size, amount.
Normally used to describe intelligence, probability, bank balances, luck, investment funds, chance, laughs in this paragraph, etc....
Zero raised to the nth power remains zero. -- Pop Baslim
zeroth: /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays.
Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1; this is natural ...
Zero tolerance/infinite hypocrisy
zero: vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp.
in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from....

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